Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is still adjusting to life in Washington, DC.

On Monday, she informed her 3.3 million followers on Instagram that she didn't know why flipping a switch near the kitchen sink in her "bougie" new apartment provoked a loud crunching sound to come out of the drain.

"There is a monster living in my sink," she said in an Instagram story, flipping the switch. "It made that noise and it scared the daylights out of me."

After her followers presumably informed the congresswoman that the noise-making device was a garbage disposal, Ocasio-Cortez explained that she's never seen one before.

"I am told this is a garbage disposal," the Bronx, New York native went on. "I've never seen a garbage disposal, I've never had one in any place I've ever lived. It is terrifying — I don't know what to use it for or what its purpose is. Is this environmentally sound?"

"They were illegal in NYC for a long time and never really became a thing after the ban was lifted 😂," the freshman Democratic lawmaker tweeted Tuesday night. "Other home things many NYers don't have in their apartments: washer/dryer, dishwasher, central air."